Dagestan(skiye) Ogni town: a story in the making

Taking for the grounds a review of archive records the paper considered the town Dagestanskiye Ogni (Dage-stani Lights) that emerged from scratch at the contemporary stage of the country’ history, starting from a small industrial community settlement. The author has shown development of industrial enterprises, apartment houses and the whole infrastructure of the city under the guidance of government authorities. The fact that 100 years ago gas deposits were discovered at this place had contributed to the making of cities that gave impetus to construction of a glass-manufacturing plant. It was established by the Russian brethren entrepreneurs, the Malyshev, and further people from various regions of the country came to this place. The town Dagestanskiye Ogni was incorporated as a metropolitan area in 1991, at the time of the collapse of the great country, as everybody knows. The paper also specified the part taken by the public authorities in solving the issues at the town of Dagestanskiye Ogni, both weak points and errors committed by the local authorities in solving economic and social challenges of the nascent city.